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Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maine at Augusta. Research & Teaching Interests: social networks, social media, gender, and social politics. Content is obviously not endorsed by my institution.
AboutAssociate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maine at Augusta. Research and Teaching Interests: social media, social networks, gender, and the sociology of politics.
The fact that far too many people cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.
@socprof Call Walgreens @ 800-925-4733 and make a complaint that you will not spend a penny there until they reverse their decision. This complaint will go to corporate. Let's flood their phone lines and hit 'em where it hurts $$$ #WalgreensHatesWomen #BoycottWalgreens #ByeWalgreens
Compared to the days of multiple costume changes and raucous, noisy sets, this #Rhianna halftime show was as Apple as if Jony Ive had designed it: spare, elegant, and beautiful. #SuperBowl
THIS.
Well, it isn’t every day that a boy gets sampled by NORC. #fanboy #sociology #data
If I have to be more explicit about why I don't like mandatory pronoun sharing, it's because A) it reifies the idea that the most important thing to know about someone is their gender and B) collapses their gender down to just do they use the pronoun you expect/think matches them.
#auspol
This cartoon is from the 1930s. Has much changed? Remember what happened next?
The most entertaining text feed in the world right now is https://live.house.gov #popcorn #schadenfreude #housevote
live.house.gov, U.S. House of Representatives

Your dashboard for legislative activity. Watch the U.S. House of Representatives live and follow all the action on any device.

The US #Census data portal (data.census.gov) now has population pyramids at "nation, states, counties, cities/towns, congressional districts, school districts, American Indian Areas, Alaska Native Areas, and Hawaiian Home Lands" levels!

This and more updates at https://www.census.gov/data/what-is-data-census-gov/developmental-update.html

Check it out especially if you've never been to their portal - you can get lost in all the fun options and #data. #demography #geography

Developmental Update

View our release notes that provide the known limitations and defects, as well as the full list of features and functionality available.

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New in PNAS Nexus: Social media posts using moral language are more likely to receive hate-speech replies. Each additional moral word increases the likelihood of a hateful reply by up to 20.6%. Biggest hate effect from right-wingers toward leftist activists https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac281/6881737
Moralized language predicts hate speech on social media

Abstract. Hate speech on social media threatens the mental health of its victims and poses severe safety risks to modern societies. Yet, the mechanisms underlyi

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